Anthony J. Daul, 67, formerly of Chicago, went peacefully to meet the Lord, with family members at his side, Monday morning April 23, 2001 at a Green Bay hospital. He was employed for 39 years as a Cost Accountant for Krack Corp., a subsidiary of Hussmann Corp. in Addison, IL. Tony attended St. Eugene and St. Monica Catholic Churches. Friends may call at St. Mary Church, 1412 Main St., Luxemburg, WI, Saturday, May 5th from 10:00 a.m. until time of Memorials Mass which will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. Burial church cemetery.

Hussmann Corp.'s president and chief executive, Jack Michaels, resigned amid speculation that the commercial refrigerator manufacturer might be sold by its parent, Chicago-based Whitman Corp. Michaels, 52, resigned to accept the president's post "of a company in another industry," Whitman said Friday. Bruce Chelberg, Whitman's executive vice president, will act as Hussmann's chief executive until a replacement is chosen, Whitman said. Hussmann, based in Bridgeton, Mo., makes...

Midas, Hussmann chiefs: Whitman Corp named new chairmen of the two subsidiaries it will spin off late next month--Midas International and commercial refrigerator-maker Hussmann Corp. Wendel H. Province will become chairman and chief executive of Midas effective Jan. 1; the former chief operating officer of auto-parts retailer Pep Boys-Manny, Moe and Jack, Province is succeeding John R. Moore, who is retiring. At Hussmann, Richard G. Cline, retired chairman of...

Hussmann Corp., a unit of Whitman Corp., Rolling Meadows, reached agreement to sell its Star ice merchandiser and block-ice maker product lines and its manufacturing plant in Dumas, Ark., to Leer Manufacturing Co., New Lisbon, Wis. The sale is expected to be completed by Jan. 31. Sales for Star product lines this year are estimated at $3.6 million.

Whitman Corp. received an Internal Revenue Service ruling that its spinoff of its Midas International and Hussmann Corp. operating units is tax-free to Whitman and its shareholders. The company said its board is scheduled to formally declare the dividend consisting of Midas and Hussmann stock later this month and they will likely be given out at the end of January. The Rolling Meadows-based company said that after the spinoffs, its remaining operating company will be Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers.

Overseas alliance: Hussmann Corp., a subsidiary of Chicago-based Whitman Corp., said Thursday that it has formed a joint venture with Luoyang Refrigeration to make commercial refrigeration equipment in China. Hussmann will hold a 55 percent stake in the joint-venture company, Luoyang-Hussmann Refrigeration Co. Ltd., in which Hussmann will invest $5.5 million.

Whitman Corp., which earlier this year announced its intention to spin off two of its three operating units, said Monday that preparation for the move will cause an after-tax charge of $120 million in the third and fourth quarters. The Rolling Meadows-based firm, with about $3 billion in sales last year, is planning to spin off to shareholders Hussmann Corp., which manufactures and markets supermarket refrigeration equipment, and the franchised auto-service firm Midas International Corp.

Midas, Hussmann chiefs: Whitman Corp named new chairmen of the two subsidiaries it will spin off late next month--Midas International and commercial refrigerator-maker Hussmann Corp. Wendel H. Province will become chairman and chief executive of Midas effective Jan. 1; the former chief operating officer of auto-parts retailer Pep Boys-Manny, Moe and Jack, Province is succeeding John R. Moore, who is retiring. At Hussmann, Richard G. Cline, retired chairman of...

After two decades of adding subsidiaries that made it a bigger and more complicated holding company, Whitman Corp. is shedding the last of its unrelated units in a bid for focus. The Rolling Meadows-based company said Monday it is planning to spin off to shareholders Hussmann Corp., which manufactures and markets supermarket refrigeration equipment, and franchised auto-service firm Midas International Corp. Whitman will end up with only its biggest unit, Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, the...

Whitman Corp. received an Internal Revenue Service ruling that its spinoff of its Midas International and Hussmann Corp. operating units is tax-free to Whitman and its shareholders. The company said its board is scheduled to formally declare the dividend consisting of Midas and Hussmann stock later this month and they will likely be given out at the end of January. The Rolling Meadows-based company said that after the spinoffs, its remaining operating company will be Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers.

Whitman Corp. said its net income grew 6 percent to $38 million, or 36 cents per share, from $35.8 million, or 34 cents per share, in the year-earlier quarter. Sales for the quarter were up 9 percent to $734.7 million from $673.5 million a year earlier. The Chicago-based company manufactures consumer and commercial products through its subsidiaries Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Midas International and Hussmann Corp. Operating earnings were up at the Pepsi and Midas...

Hussmann Corp., a unit of IC Industries Inc. of Chicago, has agreed to acquire all of the assets of BIH Foodservice Inc. and Bastian-Blessing Foodservice Equipment Co. Terms of the transaction were withheld. The deal is expected to be completed late next month. Subsidiaries of St. Louis-based BIH include Southern Equipment Co., Seco Engineering, Seco Products, Toastmaster commercial products and Victory refrigeration. Together, BIH and Bastian-Blessing of New York have annual...

Whitman Corp. on Tuesday took its Hussmann Corp. unit off the auction block and disclosed that an anticipated work force reduction and cost-cutting program will be part of an upcoming corporate restructuring. The restructuring will result in an undetermined number of job cuts at Whitman's Chicago-based headquarters and its four operating units, Pet Inc., Midas International Corp., Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Inc. and Hussmann, a company spokesman said. Hussmann was taken off the block...

Whitman Corp. announced Thursday it made an initial $5.5 million investment in a joint venture with a Chinese state company to make and sell refrigeration and food-display cases in China. Whitman, based in Rolling Meadows, will own 55 percent of the venture, provide design and technical assistance and eventually take profits in dollars if the company proves a success. Such payment is difficult to obtain in China, which is starved for foreign currency. ...

Hussmann Corp., a subsidiary of Chicago-based Whitman Corp. (formerly IC Industries), signed a letter of intent to sell its food-service equipment group to Middleby Corp. for $70 million. The sale to Middleby, which is based in north suburban Morton Grove, will allow Hussmann to concentrate on its food store refrigeration and merchandising equipment business, the company said. In 1988, the food-service equipment group accounted for 15 percent of Hussman's sales and 8 percent of its operating income.

Overseas alliance: Hussmann Corp., a subsidiary of Chicago-based Whitman Corp., said Thursday that it has formed a joint venture with Luoyang Refrigeration to make commercial refrigeration equipment in China. Hussmann will hold a 55 percent stake in the joint-venture company, Luoyang-Hussmann Refrigeration Co. Ltd., in which Hussmann will invest $5.5 million.

In an effort to find faster growth, Whitman Corp. of Rolling Meadows on Monday announced it will spend $100 million over the next eight years to bottle and distribute Pepsi and other sodas in Poland. If the venture proves successful, Whitman intends to do the same in other Eastern European countries and possibly Asia, according to Bruce Chelberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Whitman. Whitman, parent of Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, the largest Pepsi bottler in...